What a trip this is, the lone and long-forgotten album from Sean Bonniwell, or T.S., or whatever. Best known as leader of the 1960s American garage-rock band the Music Machine, he’d briefly established a reputation for fuzzy-guitared, Farfisa-organed sides like the Top 20 hit “Talk Talk.” You hear, in theRead More

For the past two decades, the Squires of the Subterrain has been putting out some of the coolest sounds one could hope to experience. Not a band, but an individual artist, who also frequently records under the name Christopher Earl, the Rochester, New York-based multi-tasking musician has often and deservedlyRead More

Sinead O’Connor’s ‘How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?’ featured return-to-form originals that are both offbeat and powerful – sometimes all at once.

The themes of struggle and redemption are so strong on Darkness that on every song I want to say that this song is the album’s emotional center. The reality is that each and every song get their fair share of the responsibility. You May Also Like: Night Songs by ElvisRead More

Benoit David’s abrupt dismissal eerily mirrors that of his predecessor, Yes co-founder Jon Anderson.

You’re to be forgiven for expecting this to be a guitar record. First, there’s Ned Evett himself — a master of this specially created fretless version of the instrument. And his producer, gearhead Adrian Belew. You May Also Like: Adrian Belew’s ‘Side One’ Was a Journey Through His Rich MusicalRead More

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The debut of this soulfully swaying amalgam finds Byron – one of this era’s more intriguing jazz clarinetist/saxophonists – turning his attention to the layered musical legacies of Thomas A. Dorsey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Dorsey, known as the father of black gospel, pioneered the combination of traditional Christian hymnsRead More

The theme is a Steely Dan favorite: “Here at the Western World” takes a darkly sarcastic look at drug-addled depravity in contemporary America.

For years and years, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation was the record I went to when the mood struck for some ugly & hypnotic guitar. Dirty now sits in that spot. Actually, it’s the second disc of the deluxe-edition set from 2003: full of b-sides and, more important, a ton ofRead More